Congratulations to Rob Hughes, who won the Glib Meleshko Memorial Prize for Best Research Lecture by a postgraduate student at the recent Cardiff Chemistry Conference. Rob impressed the audience by cutting straight to the chase ("Enzymes are awesome!") before explaining how a selective labeling technique can accelerate detection of different conformations in their catalytic cycles.Read more

Our recent work on enzymatic transformations in flow has been publicised on the BBC News website, with Dr Xiaoping Tang appearing in the accompanying video with Professors Wirth and Allemann. Click here to read more and wacth the video.Read more

A robust response to a frequent complaint: In recent years, the awards of Nobel Prize in Chemistry has generated discontent among some chemists who complain that more and more the Chemistry Prize is given to biologists, with expressions like "But, is this chemistry?" With all due respect to "chemist" colleagues who ask the question, orRead more

This video abstract accompanies Xiaoping's new paper in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry and visually describes how the yield of terpene cyclase reactions can be dramatically improved using a flow reactor.Read more

In a new paper in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Xiaoping shows how the yield of terpene cyclase reactions can be dramatically improved using a flow reactor. In cases where release of a hydrophobic product is rate-limiting, intimate contact with an organic phase is essential to improve turnover, however rapid stirring can precipitate theRead more

The BBSRC has recently awarded a grant to a collaborative proposal between the Allemann, Luk and Tsai groups from the Cardiff University School of Chemistry and Prof. Arwyn Jones from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science. Together, we will create a specialised tool that allows us to introduce a protein of interest into cellsRead more

Congratulations to Antonio, Will and Louis whose new paper in ACS Catalysis has been chosen to be highlighted as an Editor's Choice in Chemical & Engineering News. Antonio has created a glutathione-based system for NADP+ regeneration. This is important because cofactors can be extremely expensive, limiting the use of enzymes that require them for synthesis.Read more